Mass violence and the self from the French wars of religion to the Paris Commune
Howard G. Brown
- Ithaca London Cornell University Press 2018
- 283, páginas., 8 páginas de láminas
Massacres and the wars of religion -- The Fronde and the crisis of 1652 -- The Thermidorians' terror -- The Paris Commune and the "bloody week" of 1871.
"Examines the visual and textual media depicting personal suffering caused by incidents of mass violence in France from 1560 to 1880 that helped to provoke repeated collective traumas, which in turn forged new social identities and fostered the psychological processes of the modern self"--